The Polar Night Won't Shine on the Faithless
Not until the eve of the project's declassification, when the communication controls were lifted.
Only then, from the academic weeklies and internal college bulletins Noah forwarded me, did I piece together how things ended for Adrian and Selena.
After losing me, his fiancée in name, the hypocritical shell Adrian wore peeled away completely.
He'd once believed that as long as he chose to, he could move between the light and the dark with ease forever.
But he'd overestimated himself.
Without the light, even the dark became unbearably glaring.
I heard that in the first month after I left, Selena thought she'd finally come out on top.